Remove dependency on Flex/Bison
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Key: AVRO-956
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-956
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: c++
Affects Versions: 1.6.1
Reporter: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
Assignee: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
Fix For: 1.7.0
The current schema parser uses Flex/Bison. Making Flex/Bison work with CMake
seems difficult. Moreover trying to parse Json directly into in-memory schema
object appears hard. The code is not friendly for extensions to implement new
features such as namespace, documentation comments etc.
We already have a Json parser in Avro C++ codebase, but is hidden inside the
JsonCodec. Bringing it out and implementing a schema parser on top of that
(similar to the Java and C++ implementations) would fix the problem. The
forthcoming patch does just that.
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